Divided We Fall - Family Discord and the Fracturing of America

Informationen zum Autor Bryce J. Christensen Klappentext This book explores the tensions surrounding national turmoil in family life and new divides in political life. Christensen warns that continued reliance on government to compensate for family failure will make matters worse in the long run. Zusammenfassung In the weeks that followed the horror of September 11, politicians of both major parties resolutely asserted America's national unity Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Divided We Fall: Family Strife in America’s Second Civil War; 2: Friendly Fire in the War on Terror? The Bewildering Tactics of America’s Anti-Family Ideologues; 3: Dead-Beat Dads or Fleeced Fathers? The Strange Politics of Child Support; 4: Fostering Confusion: The Real Foster-Care Crisis; 5: Homeless America: Why Has America Lost Its Homemakers?; 6: Queer Demand? Why Homosexuals Began Demanding What Marriage Had Become; 7: The End of Patriotism: Family Tumult in “the Seedbed of the State”; 8: A New “Fable of the Bees”: America’s Family-Failure Economy; 9: Taking off the Rose-Colored Glasses: Post-9/11 Sobriety as a Basis for Healthier Family Life; 10: Turning Back the Clock: Should America Try to Recover Lost Family Strengths?

Product details

• Authors: Bryce Christensen, Bryce J. Christensen
• Assisted by: Bryce J. Christensen (Editor), Christensen Bryce J. (Editor), M. Afzalur Rahim (Editor), Rahim M. Afzalur (Editor)
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2005
• EAN: 9780765803160
• ISBN: 978-0-7658-0316-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, Sociology: family & relationships, United States of America, USA, Sociology: family and relationships